# Leone Frollo artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/leone-frollo/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T18:54:32.362Z
Quality: medium confidence, thin sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Italian
- Common media: Comic-book art, Painting

## Portrait

![Leone Frollo](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/Leone-frollo-by-joe-zattere.jpg)
Joezattere · CC BY-SA 3.0
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Leone-frollo-by-joe-zattere.jpg

## About Leone Frollo

Leone Frollo (1931–2018) was an Italian comic-book artist and cartoonist; Wikidata also identifies him as a painter. His identity is represented in several international library authority systems, including BnF, VIAF, GND, ISNI, and IdRef, helping distinguish his published work from similarly named people. The strongest material in this research pack places comic-book art at the center of his practice, while painting remains a documented but less fully described aspect of his career. Collectors may therefore encounter his name on comic art, illustration-related material, or works catalogued as paintings. The available sources do not establish a formal art movement, a definitive chronology, recurring subjects, or a verified list of series. Those details should be confirmed from stronger scholarly or catalogue sources before being added to the artist record. Appraisily consequently presents Frollo as a documented Italian comics practitioner while preserving uncertainty around areas not covered by the collected evidence.

## Common works and media

The collected identity sources support comic-book art as Leone Frollo's principal documented work type and also identify painting as part of his practice. They do not specify techniques, materials, recurring subjects, editions, publication history, or named series, so those details should be established from the object itself and stronger catalogue or lot-level evidence.

## Market and appraisal context

The current Appraisily input associates 193 auction records with Leone Frollo, but this research pack did not expose individual lot descriptions or results for review. The supported market distinction is therefore limited to work type: authority sources describe Frollo primarily as a comic-book artist and cartoonist, while Wikidata also records painting as an occupation. A defensible appraisal should match the object to the correct artistic context and then examine comparable public lots when their descriptions, sale dates, and realized prices are available. This source pack does not support conclusions about price trends, scarcity, record prices, edition effects, condition, provenance, or the relative demand for particular subjects.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist-identity research with auction records and auction-house context. Sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots are incorporated when reliable records are available; gaps in the collected evidence are stated rather than filled with assumptions.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q967883
- Bibliothèque nationale de France: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb129480791
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leone_Frollo
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/leone-frollo/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Leone-frollo-by-joe-zattere.jpg